Date Bars With Caramel Sauce Recipe

Directions:

1. To prepare cake, preheat oven to 350* -
2. Butter a 9 springform pan.
3. Place dates in saucepan, cover with water
4. (1 1/2 cups) - bring to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook 3 minutes.
5. Add baking soda.mixture will foam - set aside.
6. In large bowl, cream cut up butter, sugar and eggs.adding eggs one at a time.gently mix in flour, salt and vanilla extract - slowly stir in baking powder and 1/4 cup of liquid from cooking dates till mixture resemble thick pancake batter, drain off remainder of date cooking liquid and discard -
7. Stir in dates, and combine well.
8. Bake for 30-40 minutes or cooked in center.
9. To prepare CARAMEL SAUCE:.
10. Combine butter, whipping cream, brown sugar and vanilla extract.bring to a boil. reduce heat and simmer and cook 5 minutes.
11. To serve, drizzle some sauce over cake as it is cooling -
12. Serve rest of sauce seperately - .